Johnny Mathis, Roy Wilkins, and four other men, Los Angeles, 1961

Item Overview

Title

Johnny Mathis, Roy Wilkins, and four other men, Los Angeles, 1961

Alternative title

Jazz and Popular Music vocalists

Photographer

Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988

Date Created

1961

Date

1961

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is a singer of popular music with several gold and platinum albums. Mathis received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Group portrait of a young Johnny Mathis, (center) with Roy Wilkins (third from left) and 4 other men.
Roy Ottoway Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement from the 1930s to the 1970s. As a member of the NAACP he contributed to the successful outcomes of Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Caption

Written on back of photo: Johnny Mathis (wearing white coat). Photographer's stamp: Please Credit Photo / by / Harry H. Adams / 4223 So. Avalon Blvd. AD 2-9497. Date stamp: Oct. 1-1961

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

group portraits

Names

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
Mathis, Johnny

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American civil rights workers
African American singers